Atkins Debate on GMTV tomorrow morning

[Demi]

Have just heard on TV that the Atkins diet is to be debated on GMTV tomorrow morning.

Thought it was a good idea to flag it here, so that everyone knows to look out for it :)

[pepsi max]

theres just been a report about atkins on bbc1.my mother has just phoned to tell me i,m going to get serious kidney disease.grrrrrrrr.when is this going to end.

[kellyuk]

And on ITV a couple of mins ago :(

[Demi]

Here's what they have just had to say on the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3144409.stm

[kellyuk]

Oh, how suprising, just went along to the GMTV website to see if there was a feedback form for the Atkins plan, and look who is the PAYING sponsor on the page



WEIGHT WATCHERS

[pepsi max]

well, if ww are the sponsers we know what that report will be like,don,t we.
think i,ll disable the phone in the morning so mam can,t tell me what i,m going to die with tomorrow.

[kellyuk]

The fact that they are being paid for every click on the ad that they generate is what really annoys me, if it was a general paid ad it would be bad enough but a pay-per-click ad is winding me right up.

[Ebbie.B]

Revenge is sweet
Perhaps we all should go and click on the Ad several times, (i could sit here for hours doing that) and make an even bigger dent in weight watchers profits hehe:D

[lburnikell]

weight watchers huh the only pounds I lost with with them where the cash kind!! I just laugh now when I see or hear an anti atkins report cause it is complete and utter bull s#*t they havent even bothered to reserch it correctly, as far as I am conserned we all know the truth, and when things start going wrong with their bodies throught the abuse of carbs, who will have egg on their face then!!

[SylviaUK]

I have read so much crap about low carb/Atkins in the UK media over the last few months that I'm really tempted to stand up and shout:

"hey you dozy idiots, come and hear the real facts from the horse's mouth :) I'll tell you how eating natural, unrefined food is so much better for you that eating the refined mush that the food manufacturers think is the key to providing what the eager masses desire. And if you don't believe me, that's your problem - if you want to go on eating traditional fish 'n' chips that's up to you :) Just don't blame me when you put on weight and feel like a bloated octopus ;)"

[IPR]

I'm a Brit living abroad, but still manage to get a ear full from my Mum & sister about how bad low-carbing.

This sentence made me laugh though

She added: "We simply do not know the long-term health implications, and it's such a profound change from what we're doing at the moment.

Pseudo science seems to be her basis of slamming LC. Low-carbing has been around since 1863 much longer than the recent food pyramids and high carb diets, and of course what is done now is owrking so well :rolleyes:

[kellyuk]

I've e-mailed them, let's see if they incorporate any of the info into the item

[pepsi max]

gmtv is asking for ems to them about the atkins diet and successes.get typing folks.

[JamieDoyle]

The metro newspaper (a london freebie produced by the Standard and the mail and therefore well in with weight watchers) printed a letter today from an Atkins follower in it they corrected they myth that induction IS the WOE ! And pointed out the other phases. So I guess fair play to them for printing it, but I bet it doesn't appear in the mail !

[kellyuk]

Damn it - they started off giving off good info about Atkins, then went down to slating it and cutting off, just e-mailed them again

[kellyuk]

http://www.gm.tv/index.cfm?articleID=678

e-mail them and keep bugging them about how great this plan is

[kellyuk]

ooooh, I never usually watch gmtv, I've just noticed they're sponsored by boots, it's no wonder they're anti-Atkins if their main sponsor won't sell the dreaded deadly 'sticks of doom'

[pepsi max]

i,ve emed them.how come the site at the bottom of screen is saying weight watchers?

[kellyuk]

Yay - the doc gave a really good interview, he was interupted and put down but he came through good. Hilary-Jones put up the usual rubbish :(

[pepsi max]

the american doc was brill.hilary jones was rubbish as usual.

[Ebbie.B]

Just sent them an email, i ranted on about the good of Atkins hope they don't think i'm a nutter :D.
I also ranted abit about Dr Hilary and told them he is the reason why i wont watch their programme. He is a complete idiot who knows nothing, to be honest i find it hard to believe he really is a doctor. The last straw for me was him preaching on about the 'wonderfull' MMR oh grrrrrrrrrr not the right forum to get started on that.

[Myeika]

Hi there.

After all this hoo har in the papers and on the TV about the Atkins WOE, I too have had my mother on the phone telling me that I look great as I am now, and should come off it and start eating propley....WHAT....I eat so much better now than I ever did before, and the weight loss is only a side effect of me eating the 'right' kinds of foods!!!!

It makes me soo very cross....she went into a blinding panic when she read the first artical in the mail...thinking I was going to kill myself...the media have so much bull to answer for....

TTFN

Myeika

[Ebbie.B]

I'm sorry some of you guys are having problems with your Mum's.
I was too until i had enough of answering her silly (and they were silly) questions. Once my Mum has her teeth into something she doesn't let go and normally totally believes everything she hears from the media etc.

So i went to see her said here's the Atkins book for you to read, please read it and then we can have a proper talk about it. When i went to see her a week or so later i asked her what she thought and simply got 'it has given me a lot to think about' and that was it. This was at the end of July and i haven't had one Atkins related phone call from her, which believe me with all this media bashing is a miracle for my Mum.
Telling people to read the book or even just look at the internet site's and then come and speak to me about it, is the best thing to do. As most people will see straight away that this diet is not dangerous and in fact for a lot of people a much healthier diet.

My brother in law was much easier to shut up, when he started on the Atkins diet. I simply listed all the vegetables i had eaten the day before and all the water i had drunk and then asked him what he had eaten/drank, he shut up and went off to the garden to sulk LOL